(SPOILER WARNING) Stay Alive: you die in the game, you die for real.

As a big fan of video games and as a big addict of horror and paranormal, I was immediately interested in discovering this film. Stay Alive, a horror movie that mixing the world of geeks and video games to the world of fear, nightmares and death. Welcome to a world or even the best entertainments can become your biggest threats and cause your loss.
Stay Alive, the only game that can kill players for real! This is my personal analysis of the movie.

Quick summary. The film tells the story of a group of friends, who after the mysterious death of one of them, decide to meet to try to change their minds and want to test a new video game horror: Stay Alive, which belonged to the victim, who had played just before being murdered. The game was created by an unknown person and is based on the life of Elizabeth Bathory, known as the bloody countess, a woman who lived in the 16th century and whose the legend is well known because of the atrocities she has committed. But soon the band of friends will realize that a curse is on this game and is directly related to the Countess Elizabeth, returned from the dead to continue her macabre killings. The band of friends must therefore do everything to stay alive because if they die in the game, they die for real.

The film was not well received and has been much criticized, but I have some difficulty to understanding why. Ok it's not the film of the year or the century, but it is not bad. The scenario is original and correct, and it is consistent. The actors are believable and play their roles properly. The characters are not too stereotyped and they are endearing, we don't want them to die, and some scenes are sad (The death of Phineus, and his sister October, crying at the sight of her brother dead, and the scene or October is killed too....) So bad, they were cool characters, but it is a horror movie, some must die. The atmosphere is really dark and oppressive, we can feel the threat above the band of friends during their adventure, or they are trying to survive, both in the game and also in real life. Creepy. The Countess Bathory and the other ghosts appearing in the film are creepy as desired and really put pressure at some times. If I had to describe Stay Alive in a few words, I would say "a good movie unfairly underestimated."

Not the movie of the year, but a very good entertainment that I recommend highly.

For those who don't know it and as I said, Elizabeth Bathory was a countess, but she was also a sadist and a killer without mercy, and she has really existed. She had a morbid passion for blood and its virtues that she considered as "curative and miraculous." So for several years, she killed young women to empty them and bathing in their blood, believing that this would ensure her the eternal youth. According to estimates, more than 600 young women were killed between the walls of the castle of the countess. At that time, as a countess and from a noble and rich family, Elizabeth Bathory was untouchable and unimaginable that she can commit such crimes. But one day, her secret was discovered and she was arrested. But again, as a countess, she could not be executed. She was therefore doomed to remain locked in a room of her castle for the rest of her life, while her accomplices, several servants, were tortured and executed.

Elizabeth Bathory, now known as the "bloody countess" died the August 21, 1614 and was buried at the Church of Cachtice. And even today, her story continues to be told in documentaries and fictions. It would be her who would have inspired the myth of the vampire.

Even if what she did was really horrible, the legend of Elizabeth Bathory really fascinates me. I watched a lot of documentaries and I have read many things about her and her story.

Mathias, the Lordi Rider \m/